Chapter 203 Cargo Robbed
"But as a general, it's not easy for you to intervene in these matters. I can handle it."
Although she had saved Nan Guojin once, she had never thought of asking for anything in return at that time.
"Thank you, Mr. Nangong, for your kindness." Xu Miaomiao thought of Nangong Jin and bowed to him. After delivering the things, she was ready to leave.
"Madam Xu!"
Just when she was about to leave, Nangong Jin stopped her.
Xu Miaomiao looked back.
"Remember to find me if you need anything."
Hearing this, Xu Miaomiao smiled, nodded, turned and left.
After what happened in the morning, not many people came to the store, so Xu Miaomiao closed the store early.
"Miao Miao, will we be open tomorrow?" Gu Yuanniang looked at Xu Miaomiao and asked.
"Open!" Xu Miaomiao sighed and propped herself up: "If we don't open the store, wouldn't it be telling those people that we are afraid? This store must remain open!"
"Okay." Gu Yuanniang responded, and a letter slipped out from her sleeve: "There is one thing I have never told you. There is a problem with the goods we transported from Bai County to the capital."
"What!" Xu Miaomiao jumped up and took the letter from Gu Yuanniang. She recognized the handwriting at a glance as that of Village Chief Wang.
The general content is that the goods were robbed by a group of bandits who suddenly appeared while crossing the mountain.
"How ridiculous!" After reading the letter, Xu Miaomiao was indignant: "We have always been walking on the official road, why are we suddenly walking on the mountain road?"
"I don't know either." Gu Yuanniang responded: "The previous two batches of goods arrived faster than the previous ones, but I didn't pay much attention to it. I'm afraid it's been a long time since we took the official road."
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Xu Miaomiao pinched her nose tiredly, looked at Gu Yuanniang and continued, "Early tomorrow morning, I will go back to Bai County to see what happened. Liuniang, you guys can open the store as usual. Remember not to get into conflicts with others, but don't let others bully you either."
"Yeah." Gu Yuanniang nodded: "Miaomiao, don't worry."
Thinking that Gu Yuanniang and Song Weiwei were both impulsive, Xu Miaomiao told Xu Qingshan about the matter again, and asked him to write to her as soon as possible if anything happened.
After everything was arranged, Xu Miaomiao drove away in the carriage.
They usually took the official road to and from the capital, so nothing unusual happened.
When I returned to the village, I saw ashes coming out of the chimney of my empty house.
Xu Miaomiao frowned and walked in curiously.
There was a woman lying inside, wearing only a bellyband on her upper body, leaning against the chair and smoking. When she saw Xu Miaomiao, she was a little surprised: "Who are you? Who allowed you in?"
Before Xu Miaomiao could speak, another man came in from behind, holding a cooking spoon in his hand: "Who are you? Do you know that trespassing is illegal?"
"So you also know that trespassing is illegal." Xu Miaomiao looked at the group of men and women in front of her and said, "Who are you? How dare you come to our house!"
The woman's eyes moved several times and she winked at the man.
The man was about to hit Xu Miaomiao with the rice spoon in his hand, but Xu Miaomiao dodged it with her sharp eyes.
Seeing that Xu Miaomiao was fine, the two men grabbed their clothes and prepared to escape, but they happened to meet Village Chief Wang who came in looking for Xu Miaomiao.
"Where are you going?"
Village chief Wang pulled the two hurried people aside and asked curiously.
The two tried to break free, but they were no match for the man's strength.
“Don’t let them get away.”
Xu Miaomiao's voice came from behind, and Village Chief Wang held the two of them tighter: "Madam Xu, what's going on?"
"Village chief, I also want to ask, I just came home and saw these two people lying on the ground in my house, what happened?"
Village Chief Wang looked at Xu Miaomiao with some confusion: "These two people said they were your friends, their house was burned down, and they lost the key you gave them on the way, so they moved in."
"I don't know them at all." Xu Miaomiao looked at the two of them and said.
The village chief was shocked when he heard this and immediately sent the two men to the government: "I'm sorry, Madam Xu, it's all my fault for not asking clearly and causing this kind of thing."
"It's okay." Xu Miaomiao waved her hand: "I'll just have to trouble the village chief to keep an eye on it for a while, to make sure no one takes advantage of it."
"Don't worry."
"By the way, what is the matter that the village chief came to see me this time?" Xu Miaomiao asked.
Village Chief Wang patted his head as if he suddenly understood something. "I heard someone say that they saw your carriage, so I came to find you right away. It's all my fault, Madam Xu."
As he said this, Village Chief Wang was about to kneel down to Xu Miaomiao.
Xu Miaomiao immediately stopped the man who wanted to kneel down and said, "What are you doing?"
"Mrs. Xu, I'm sorry for what I have done to you." Village Chief Wang said as he looked at Xu Miaomiao. "It was my son who came up with the idea. He said that taking the mountain road would save a lot of money. There were no problems on the first two trips, but for some reason, a group of robbers suddenly came down from the mountain and took away all the cotton and pears we harvested."
Hearing this, Xu Miaomiao pursed her lips into a straight line as she looked at the man and said, "Since this has already happened, we should think about how to solve it. Saying anything in our hearts will not help."
Xu Miaomiao thought for a while and looked at the man and continued, "Have you ever tried to negotiate with those bandits?"
"We tried." Village Chief Wang said earnestly, "But they refused to return the goods to us. Even if we reported it to the police, it was useless."
"I see." Xu Miaomiao nodded: "There are too many things in this batch of goods, and they are worth a lot. We definitely can't just let it go like this. But even if they take those goods, they won't have anything. I think they must want to negotiate a deal with us."
"Madam Xu, what are you doing?"
Village Chief Wang watched Xu Miaomiao unload the carriage from the horse.
"Is it the road behind the mountain?" Xu Miaomiao asked the man below while riding on a horse.
"Yes," the man nodded, "Madam Xu, do you want to go alone?"
"right."
"No, that group of thieves is extremely vicious. Let's find a few young and strong guys to go with us."
"It's okay." Xu Miaomiao shook her head: "Just Village Chief Wang, if I don't come back, remember to send a letter to the capital for me."
Before Village Chief Wang agreed, he saw Xu Miaomiao riding away on a horse, and her figure had long disappeared.
In the capital, Erbao didn't find Xu Miaomiao all day and pouted at Gu Yuanniang in dissatisfaction: "Aunt Gu, where is mother?"
"Good boy, Erbao." Gu Yuan's mother touched her head and said, "Mom will be back in two days."
(End of this chapter)
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